[1.x] Add Support for Custom Code Environments

[pushpak1300]

This PR introduces support for custom code environments (IDEs and AI agents) by making the code environment system extensible.

Previously, Boost only supported a hardcoded list of environments, which made it difficult to add support for new IDEs or agents directly within the official Boost repository.

With this change, developers can now register custom code environments via the new Boost facade. This allows:

• IDE/tool owners to provide their own integration without modifying Boost core.

Key Changes

• New Boost Facade: Added Laravel\Boost\Boost facade for registering custom code environments.
• BoostManager: Introduced BoostManager class to manage code environment registrations.
• Extensible Architecture: Refactored CodeEnvironmentsDetector to use the manager instead of hardcoded arrays.
• Documentation: Updated README with instructions for creating and registering custom code environments.
• Tests: Added comprehensive tests for the new functionality.

Example Usage

Developers can now create custom code environments:

<?php

use Laravel\Boost\Contracts\Agent;
use Laravel\Boost\Contracts\McpClient;
use Laravel\Boost\Install\CodeEnvironment\CodeEnvironment;

class MyCustomIDE extends CodeEnvironment implements Agent, McpClient
{
    // Implementation
}

And register them:

use Laravel\Boost\Boost;

Boost::registerCodeEnvironment('myide', MyCustomIDE::class);

This change does not break any existing features and enhances Boost's extensibility.

[gldrenthe89]

Great feature. I have created a extension for Augment Code which can be found here:

• Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/gldrenthe89/laravel-boost-augment-code-extension
• Github: https://github.com/gldrenthe89/laravel-boost-augment-code-extension

This has been succesfull tested with this proposed PR. Waiting on release 💪

[ashleyhindle]

Works as expected 💪

We spoke about generally improving the CodeEnvironment class, and agree we should do that soon but not right now.

Will be good to get a once-over of the README (post-changes) before merge/release 🙏

[taylorotwell]

I think one thing that's not clear from the readme is what does any of that actually do? 🤔 Also, what is a "code environment"?

On this topic, are there other popular coding tools we should just add first-party support for instead?

[gldrenthe89]

I think one thing that's not clear from the readme is what does any of that actually do? 🤔 Also, what is a "code environment"?

On this topic, are there other popular coding tools we should just add first-party support for instead?

I submitted a PR for AugmentCode (#282), but it was rejected in favor of this PR, which I can support. As a result, I created a package for this new feature (https://github.com/gldrenthe89/laravel-boost-augment-code-extension). I’d love to see at least one of these versions made available! ;-)

[pushpak1300]

On this topic, are there other popular coding tools we should just add first-party support for instead?

I think we already support all the major IDEs and AI agents. This change mainly provides a way to extend support for some of the lesser-used ones like Zed, Augment, or Gemini etc, so others can easily add integrations for agents without us having to maintain them as first-party IDEs.

I’ve also updated the README.md to better explain what CodeEnvironment are, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts. should the class name CodeEnvironment be refactored to something like Agent or IDE for more clarity?